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  • Invitation to “Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg” – Free Registration until Nov 17.th

    Fachaustausch Geoinformation in der Print Media Academy Heidelberg am 24.11.2016 Die Veranstaltung dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, aktuelle Themen und Trends in der Geoinformationswirtschaft. Gleichzeitig handelt es sich um das zentrale Netzwerktreffen des GeoNet.MRN e.V., das sich zu Ziel gesetzt hat, die regionalen…

  • Apply now: ISPRS Summer School of Alpine Research 2017: Close Range Sensing Techniques in Alpine Terrain

    Download flyer (PDF) Objectives The main goal of the Joint Summer School 2017 is to provide participants with innovative practical and methodological skills to characterise complex terrain and objects using close-, near range and remote sensing techniques. The Summer School will be the second edition after a successful first version in 2015. Teaching Methods Theoretical…

  • Invitiation: Colloquium Talk by Dr. Jiaoyan Chen on Predictive Analytics of Spatial Data

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday about analysis of big spatial data from multiple sources (sensor data, social media). Dr. Jiaoyan Chen presents ways to improve results obtained with traditional data mining techniques for spatio-temporal prediction for a China smog use case. Predictive Analytics and Knowledge…

  • OSM GeoWeek MissingMaps Mapping Event for Madagascar @Heidelberg

    Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, Nov 13-19th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek in context of the National Geographic’s Geography Awareness Week. In this scope the disastermappers/ GIScience Research Group Heidelberg invites you again to a special Mapathon to start the new semester. When: Thursday 17.11.2016, 6 pm Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University…

  • Colloquium Series of Heidelberg Geographic Society (HGG) this Semester

    below you find the invitation to the colloquium presentations of the Heidelberg Geographic Society – Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft – HGG for this winter semester. (in German) The general topic is about geographic reflexions on the current state of Europe: “Wo steht Europa? Geographische Reflexionen”. Den ersten Vortrag werden Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler und Dipl.-Geogr. Regina…

  • HOT Summit MapSwipe and Pybossa Video Online

    The presentations of this years HOT summit that was held in Brussels (September 22, 2016) were recorded and are now available in the Youtube channel of HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. If you missed the summit and are interested in what we are doing, have a look at the video of the joint presentation of…

  • GIScience Colloquium Series WS 2016/2017 (MO 14pm)

    The GIScience Colloquium at Heidelberg University this semester is already in full swing with two presentations the last weeks. Today we will enjoy another interesting talk by Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik about  Maps Telling Stories , but here you can find the full list of presentations for this semester. Everybody is cordially invited to join the…

  • Invitation: Colloquium talk by Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik about Maps Telling Stories

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk next Monday about differences in the representation of spatial information in text and map media. Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik proposes a new paradigm of map use enabling maps to tell stories happening in space and time. Maps telling Stories Dr. Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Visiting Scientist at Bremen Spatial Cognition Center, Bremen…

  • HeiGIT presentation on OSM analysis and routing at WhereCamp Berlin

    This Friday, Nov 4th, Alexander Zipf from GIScience Heidelberg will give a presentation at the WhereCamp 2016 conference in Berlin about some current activities and developments in the currently being established Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformatics (HeiGIT), core funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. This includes latest developments in Routing and Navigation solutions, such as OpenRouteService…

  • Successful Wheelmap event with volunteers of SAP at Heidelberg

    On Thursday 27 October 2016 the CAP4Access team from GIScience group of Heidelberg university organised a Wheelmap mapping event for SAP volunteers in the course of the “SAP month of service“. Volunteers of SAP already supported us in merging volunteered accessibility data (from Wheelmap.org) and expert accessibility data (from Heidelberg Hürdenlos) last year. This time…

  • Invitation: Colloquium talk by Dr. Michael Bauder about the dialectic of space in Ambient Geospatial Information

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk next Monday about data shared online which provide geographic information. Dr. Michael Bauder from the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg, will report about the relation between material space and virtual space represented by so-called Ambient Geospatial Information from social media platforms. He…

  • GIScience at CartONG GeOnG Conference 2016

    The last couple of days the pictuesque city of Chambery became a gathering place for humanitarian actors, researchers and organizations. CartONG organized their biannual GeOnG conference in their headquarter city. This years conference was at the same time the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the NGO. CartONG is a French non-governmental organization that fosters the…